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[applause] thank you. Bigger home well, lieutenant mcnally, happy birthday, randy, speakers pro tem tracy and 110thn, members of the General Assembly, justices, constitutional officers, general slavery, commissioners, friends, guess, fellow tennesseans, and the woman voted best first lady in the land [applause] [laughter] my kids evenam made it this year. [laughter] i am before you tonight to give my seventh state of the state address. Time really does fly. I would like to talk with you about the tennessee we can be. But first, lets start with where we are. Thanks to the hard work of so many tennesseans, i believe the state of our state has never been better. Our economy is outpacing the national economy. Not only do more tennesseans have a job today than ever in the history of our state, but tennessees median house goal Household Income has grown at the second fastest rate in the country. [applause] not only are we adding jobs, we are adding good paying jobs. On education, there is no
Now, tennessee governor bill haslam gives his annual state of the state address at the State Capitol in nashville. This is just over 30 minutes. [ applause ] thanks. Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. Thanks so much. Speaker orwell, Lieutenant Governor mcnally, happy birthday, randy, speakers pro tem tracy and johnson, members of the 110th General Assembly, justices, constitutional officers, general slatery, commissioners, friends, guests, fellow tennesseans, and for the seventh year in a row the woman voted best first lady in the land, chrissie. [ applause ] my kids even made it this year. I am before you tonight to give my seventh state of the state address. Time really does fly. Id like to talk with you about the tennessee we can be. But first, lets start with where we are. Thanks to the hard work of so many tennesseans, i believe the state of our state has never been better. Our economy is outpacing the national economy. Not only to more tennesseans have a job today than e
[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good evening and thank you all for being here and joining us. Its a somewhat unusual for the committee to meet in the evening hours. Tonights topic is one worth staying up late for. I want to keep our work this evening laser focused on the future on how we can all Work Together to create a better, brighter, healthier one for our veterans and for the Health Care System that weve built to serve. Rather than rehashing the mistakes we made long ago. As we begin to move forward this evening we mustnt lose sight of where we started. Three years ago next month in this very room, the Committee Heard testimony from a veteran who spoke about waiting almost a year for care from the department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in south carolina. When he was finally seen long after he should have been, he was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer that had spread to his liver and his lungs. He passed away in january last year. It was hi